Priests should be allowed to marry, according to Britain’s most senior Roman
Catholic.

Cardinal Keith O’Brien said he realised that many in the priesthood had found
keeping their vow of celibacy very difficult.

Cardinal O’Brien, who stood down from frontline duties in the Catholic Church
last year, said: “In my time there was no choice. You didn’t really consider
it too much. It was part of being a priest. When I was a young boy, the
priests didn’t get married and that was it. When you were a student for the
priesthood, it was part of the package. You just

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